The following reply was made to PR pkg/48319; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc:
Subject: Re: pkg/48319: devel/pango can't find fontconfig, cairo backend on
macppc-current
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 05:29:53 +0000
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 11:00:01PM +0000, John D. Baker wrote:
> I stand corrected. The version of fontconfig on NetBSD/amd64-6.1_STABLE
> is 2.10.95.
>
> I just built macppc-6.99.24 including all Xorg stuff yesterday and will
> rebuild it again as soon as my i386 build finishes. Why is it's fontconfig
> so old (v2.6.0 as reported by pkg-config)?
Some ports (I don't know if, or if so why, macppc is one of them) are
still using the old XFree X11 (src/x11 vs. src/external/mit/xorg) and
that's one possible reason.
> Don't know if this has any bearing on the CAIRO problem.
Sounds like the other issue should be fixed and then we can see...
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David A. Holland
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